How to connect to Windows 10 using OpenSSH Server

[Music] would you like to be able to use SSH to remote into your Windows 10 machine hi I'm West Brian entertainer at IT Pro TV and I'm going to show you how to get that OpenSSH server up and running here are my Windows 10 desktop one of the first things that we're gonna do is we're gonna go to the windows tile a little start button down here in the right lower left-hand corner we're gonna right click and choose apps and features now this will bring up your Windows settings apps and features location and what we're looking for is the little optional features hyperlink just below apps and features in the middle of your screen you can click on this and this brings you to the optional features that are already installed in your Windows 10 machine however we don't have the OpenSSH server installed so what we're gonna do is click the plus button wit that says add a feature when we click that you can scroll down they are alphabetic and you will find the OpenSSH server in the list and you can see it's about 1.2 3 megabytes when we hover over that we should get the install button and we can click install now it disappears but don't be don't be afraid it didn't go anywhere if we choose the back button in the upper left-hand corner of our windows settings window you'll see that the OpenSSH server is currently being installed and once it's installed we can't use it yet it's there it's ready to go for us and we can verify just by us finding it in the list now but what we need to do is we need to start the service and it doesn't start by default so I'm gonna go to the instant search field within the taskbar here and I'm going to type the word services dot MSC and that will allow us to open our services Microsoft management console and in the Microsoft management console you can search for through the list for the open SSH server and it's kind of redundant here it'll say OpenSSH open or what we got open SSH SSH server so little redundant but if you click on that double click you're gonna notice that the service isn't started by default now if you want this to start when the computer boots up just change the startup type from manual to automatic and then you can go ahead and click start once that's done go ahead and choose the okay button and that'll now ensure every time you boot your Windows 10 machine that the OpenSSH server is running and listening out for SSH remote connections let's go ahead and test out our functionality here I'm going to switch over to our Linux machine so I'm logged into my Linux server and I'm running a boon to here and we're gonna use SSH the same way we use inside of Linux to connect to our Windows machine let's go ahead and do that so we're gonna type ssh space and i'm gonna type the username on our Windows 10 machine and then an @ symbol and the IP address of our Windows 10 machine 192.168.1 o7 131 in this case and when I enter this notice that it's challenging me for the password and I'm gonna go ahead and type in the password and one of the things that you're gonna notice here is that we are in a Windows 10 prompt now I can see C colon backslash users backslash students and if I run a dir command I can see there's my Windows 10 profile and we can even go farther than that if we wanted to we can do a CD backslash and take us all the way back to the root and we can look at the windows directories here so if we type dir now there we go I've got my Program Files Program Files x86 users and my windows directory all here in an SSH shell connected from lennox back to our Windows 10 machine if you like what you've seen here today be sure to check out our playlist for more Windows 10 tips and tricks as well be sure to subscribe to the IT Pro TV channel [Music]

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Id: KLN2bY0dTtQ

Length: 3min 49sec (229 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 02 2020